QuadmasterXLII

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by QuadmasterXLII 7d ago
narrowly scoped laws limit the blast radius of a stupid law without the political price of opposing a law in the aftermath of a disaster that law would have prevented. imagine if they had banned commodities trading in general!
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by QuadmasterXLII 8d ago
When maliciously convincing a person of a point, a huge fraction of the effort in every sentence goes into convincing the mark to listen to the next sentence. Individuals certainly can walk away at any point, but populations do and don&#x27
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by QuadmasterXLII 9d ago
Growing up, actual peak existence was visiting Grandma's house and playing with my mom's old toys. The seemingly unlimited, completely novel hoard from another time. My son feels similarly about visiting my parents' house and
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by QuadmasterXLII 11d ago
No proof verifier verifies all valid proofs and terminates on all invalid proofs. (actually I am wrong. You would introduce a new proof, and then step the verifier on all ongoing proofs, so non-termination isn't a driving concern)
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by QuadmasterXLII 12d ago
Pretty well everyone who still posts on X is deep fried, smart or dumb. Some of them can tell but can't stop (Nate silver, one of the greens, Zvi) and some seem unaware.
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by QuadmasterXLII 12d ago
“ Coxon himself likely has these fears because he has heard them from someone else” Or, maybe, he’s considered the arguments on the object level, an activity OP participates in to a depth not exceeding “Robots are pretty hard to make right
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by QuadmasterXLII 15d ago
Scandal as fraternity discovers 2/3rds of pledges were cheating by paying TaskRabbit temp workers to drink and dance in their stead, while the pledges stayed home and doomscrolled.
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by QuadmasterXLII 16d ago
its clocktower syndrome. they are fucked in the head and can beg us to stop them but cant stop themselves
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Ask HN: Does Gusto drop dependents randomly for anyone else?
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by QuadmasterXLII 17d ago
if meatspace stays hard, we are fine.
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by QuadmasterXLII 17d ago
Right now, if you want to pay money to a stranger on the internet, and have them draw you a high effort picture using a pencil, this is hard. Recently this was easy. Instead, what is extremely likely is that you will pay more than the cost
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by QuadmasterXLII 17d ago
It is actually pretty nice that now we can spin up an isolated copy of our whole system with one command line call- this was mandatory for letting agents run wild trying things, but mostly now it makes manual development and onboarding easi
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by QuadmasterXLII 17d ago
Every four months or so we try getting hyped on agents for ~ a week. Up to this point the answer has always been a pretty solid "nope this sucks back to manual code." The agentically coded parts of the codebase that came from thes
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by QuadmasterXLII 18d ago
This is a good FYI. I guess my microsoft trauma is showing.
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by QuadmasterXLII 18d ago
If one of the researchers forgot to check "don't train on this" a single time, the pretrain is going to know what they were working on. The question of whether they remembered to check "don't train on this" eve
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by QuadmasterXLII 27d ago
How much rote memorization did it take to harm you? the addition of 1 digit numbers is kind of mandatory to function in everyday life, the multiplication table is at most (8*9)/2 36 facts.
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by QuadmasterXLII 27d ago
Whatever the reason, it seems specific to the intersection of space and telescope. Space probes, landers, and crewed vehicles all get made in multiples, as well as ground based telescopes like Keck or the gravitational wave observatories.
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by QuadmasterXLII 28d ago
but that can just be executable heap?
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by QuadmasterXLII 1mo ago
LLMs are a magic machine to turn commons into tragedies.
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by QuadmasterXLII 1mo ago
"I am against these tools generally. I use them myself" would be a more interesting take
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by QuadmasterXLII 1mo ago
Ok! I had parsed your comment wrong. I see now that you claimed that python and go projects always had at least one dependency, and that go and rust projects had similar dependency counts, but you were not claiming that python and rust had
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by QuadmasterXLII 1mo ago
If a python example doesn't count, why were your two example languages python and go? But yeah, small number of large dependencies is the way to go.
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by QuadmasterXLII 1mo ago
Pytorch has 9 transitive dependencies for cpu-only execution, or 29 to bring in cuda. candle, the most popular rust ml library I found in a cursory search, has 119 for cpu only, and 150 to bring in CUDA. I guess it's taste whether that
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
I suspect that because each RLVR episode injects ~1 bit into the models capabilities, and training on a reasoning trace injects ~megabyte into a models capabilities, distillation is powerful enough right now that they’re all basically the s
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
this idea that government regulation is the problem and the companies need economic incentives to self regulate is a religion around here, and after incredible amounts of evidence that is untrue, like all religions, it’s practitioners have
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
“everyone has reader mode” is I guess freeing?
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
Given an open weights model trained to sometimes bite kids, we can’t train it to not bite kids, even though billions of dollars of research have been thrown at this open problem. Given an open weights model trained to never bite kids, you c
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
I do appreciate the literal college lectures on there. Hard to get the algorithm to surface them but they’re golden for learning. Of course I would be unshocked if the authenticity signals I’m tracking (AB.203 Lecture 3 video title, general
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
Use a fucking typewriter?
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
a gun that goes off when dropped is a very bad gun

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